NGC 6326 Sector that is. Every single body in every single system scanned & tagged 
NGC 6326 itself (also known as CD-51 10820) is a planetary nebula. It was first spotted by humans as long ago as 1826 and in 2010 the Hubble telescope captured this composite picture:
in game, it's a little less spectacular:
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the picture on the right is from 28 LY away which is the closest external system.
NGC 6326 Sector is located in the Ara constellation about 11,000 LY from Sol. Close enough to reach in a couple of days, far enough away not to worry about the neighbours:
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And at 1,600 LY below the galactic plane it's not somewhere people are going to drop in whilst passing.
Inside the system the light is mostly an eerie deep blue or purple:
As for the sector, I recall another CMDR who had reported scanning every single system in a sector (sorry, can't recall this intrepid CMDR's name). That struck me as a cool thing to do and something I wanted to do myself sometime. And for an added bonus, wouldn't it be great to have first discovered on the lot? When I realised no one else had been to NGC 6326 that was my cue. It's a good distance from Sol, it requires a good jump range to reach (a stripped down Asp could maybe reach the nebula but only an Anaconda could reach every system) and, crucially, it was small - at 102 systems it must be one of the smaller sectors in the Elite Milky Way. Even so it tested my patience and several times I questioned my decision to scan every single body including the asteroid belts...
But I did it. 1,517 bodies in all, including 396 asteroid clusters. Total value including the first discovered bonus was 5.9m credits. Really, really, really not worth it in terms of credits per hour, but definitely worth it in achievement!
Some stats:
Main stars:
Wolf-Rayet - 1 (NGC 6326 itself)
Neutron stars - 6
White dwarfs - 13
Class A - 5
Class F - 13
Class G - 12
Class K - 42
Class M - 10
Planetary bodies:
Ammonia worlds - 2
CFT water worlds - 2
CFT High metal content worlds - 22
other water worlds - 4
metal rich worlds - 28
other high metal content worlds - 135
gas giants with water based life - 17
gas giants with ammonia based life - 6
water giants - 1
class I gas giants - 42
class II gas giants - 12
class III gas giants - 45
class IV gas giants - 2
class V gas giants - 3
Y stars orbiting - 4
ice and/or rocky planets - 615
asteroid clusters - 386
and the jewel in the crown, one Earth-like world:
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with a surface gravity of 1.5 times that of Earth, it's not the most hospitable home. But with the remoteness of the sector and it being hard to reach I thought it might make a suitable refuge when the Thargoids attack.... Applications currently being taken for a place in Allitnil's Ark when the you-know-what hits the fan!
NGC 6326 itself (also known as CD-51 10820) is a planetary nebula. It was first spotted by humans as long ago as 1826 and in 2010 the Hubble telescope captured this composite picture:
in game, it's a little less spectacular:
View attachment 34170the picture on the right is from 28 LY away which is the closest external system.
NGC 6326 Sector is located in the Ara constellation about 11,000 LY from Sol. Close enough to reach in a couple of days, far enough away not to worry about the neighbours:
View attachment 34172
And at 1,600 LY below the galactic plane it's not somewhere people are going to drop in whilst passing.
Inside the system the light is mostly an eerie deep blue or purple:
As for the sector, I recall another CMDR who had reported scanning every single system in a sector (sorry, can't recall this intrepid CMDR's name). That struck me as a cool thing to do and something I wanted to do myself sometime. And for an added bonus, wouldn't it be great to have first discovered on the lot? When I realised no one else had been to NGC 6326 that was my cue. It's a good distance from Sol, it requires a good jump range to reach (a stripped down Asp could maybe reach the nebula but only an Anaconda could reach every system) and, crucially, it was small - at 102 systems it must be one of the smaller sectors in the Elite Milky Way. Even so it tested my patience and several times I questioned my decision to scan every single body including the asteroid belts...
But I did it. 1,517 bodies in all, including 396 asteroid clusters. Total value including the first discovered bonus was 5.9m credits. Really, really, really not worth it in terms of credits per hour, but definitely worth it in achievement!
Some stats:
Main stars:
Wolf-Rayet - 1 (NGC 6326 itself)
Neutron stars - 6
White dwarfs - 13
Class A - 5
Class F - 13
Class G - 12
Class K - 42
Class M - 10
Planetary bodies:
Ammonia worlds - 2
CFT water worlds - 2
CFT High metal content worlds - 22
other water worlds - 4
metal rich worlds - 28
other high metal content worlds - 135
gas giants with water based life - 17
gas giants with ammonia based life - 6
water giants - 1
class I gas giants - 42
class II gas giants - 12
class III gas giants - 45
class IV gas giants - 2
class V gas giants - 3
Y stars orbiting - 4
ice and/or rocky planets - 615
asteroid clusters - 386
and the jewel in the crown, one Earth-like world:
View attachment 34181
with a surface gravity of 1.5 times that of Earth, it's not the most hospitable home. But with the remoteness of the sector and it being hard to reach I thought it might make a suitable refuge when the Thargoids attack.... Applications currently being taken for a place in Allitnil's Ark when the you-know-what hits the fan!
